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Disabling bloatware
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So, really the issue is you expect KDE to present it in UI which is not the case. You would have to use the control binary to stop it from running (
akonadictl stop). To prevent it from running in the future, you'd have to edit/create it's configuration in$HOME/.configand add something likeStartServer=falseto[General].There is no way to do this in the UI. Akonadi itself isn't bloatware though. It's an important component that lets "desktop" applications access PIM. It can be a resource hog, but that's not the same. It serves a valid role. So long as you aren't using Kalendar, Kmail, etc, just remove it.